S.Amdt. 4256

SA 4256. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle E of title III, add the following:

SEC. 376. BRIEFING ON AIR FORCE PLAN FOR CERTAIN AEROSPACE
GROUND EQUIPMENT MODERNIZATION.

Not later than March 1, 2022, the Secretary of the Air
Force shall provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed
Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on
current and future plans for the replacement of aging
aerospace ground equipment, which shall include--
(1) an analysis of the average yearly cost to the Air Force
of maintaining legacy and out-of-production air start carts;

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(2) a comparison of the cost of reconditioning existing
legacy systems compared to the cost of replacing such systems
with next-generation air start carts;
(3) an analysis of the long-term maintenance and fuel
savings that would be realized by the Air Force if such
systems were upgraded to next-generation air start carts;
(4) an analysis of the tactical and logistical benefits of
transitioning from current aerospace ground equipment systems
to modern systems; and
(5) an overview of existing and future plans to replace
legacy air start carts with modern aerospace ground equipment
technology.
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